Redeemed

When I hear the word “redeemed,” I think of coupons and I hear a song about not being able to get Heaven in roller skates (iykyk). However, when this word was used in the New Testament, it had an entirely different meaning than I imagined. The word meant to buy a slave at auction and then to set them free, never to be sold again. When you were redeemed by Christ, you were a slave to sin. You were bought with a price so that you could be free from the Law of Sin and Death. You were made right in God’s eyes. What an incredible picture of a word we barely use, but is found throughout the Bible. You have been redeemed! Walk in that freedom today and live your life as one who’s been bought, freed and restored.

Here are some Bible verses on being redeemed:

1. And they sang a new song, saying: “You are worthy to take the scroll, And to open its seals; For You were slain, And have redeemed us to God by Your blood Out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation,”

Revelation 5:9 NKJV

2. The Lord redeems the life of his servants; none of those who take refuge in him will be condemned.

Psalm 34:22 ESV

3. Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”— so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith.

Galatians 3:13-14 ESV

4. For you know that you were not redeemed from your useless [spiritually unproductive] way of life inherited [by tradition] from your forefathers with perishable things like silver and gold, but [you were actually purchased] with precious blood, like that of a [sacrificial] lamb unblemished and spotless, the priceless blood of Christ.

1 Peter 1:18-19 AMP

5. But now, thus says the Lord, who created you, O Jacob, And He who formed you, O Israel: “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; You are Mine.”

Isaiah 43:1 NKJV

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